Physically Disabled People & Technology: Using Social Media

Facebook is currently one of the most commonly used social media sites in the world. People from all countries and at any age seem to be using the Facebook to share their interests with friends, family and with other people. Disabled people, especially the handicapped people have great difficulties in using the Facebook since they cannot use their hands and fingers to navigate through the Facebook. The aim of this book is to find out the difficulties encountered by disabled people for using the social media sites. The book describes the various accessibility tools provided by the operating systems for handicapped people. The benefits of social media sites have been explained in the book in great detail. Speech recognition systems are an important topic in computer accessibility and the book describes the features of such systems and their use to help the handicapped people to access the social media sites. We hope you will find the book useful and will enjoy reading it. We will be more than happy if we have motivated you to develop mobile applications for disabled people in your future life.